More to the point, James, your beliefs cannot impose any action on the environment (except of course the part of the environment that includes other people, where it includes actions like speaking and writing). That's why I keep making the jokes about spoon-bending, James. You haven't incorporated into your argument any distinction between your inside and your outside. In therapy and counseling, this is sometimes referred to as having "fragile ego boundaries".jamest wrote:And yet, every human response (action or verbal) to an environmental event is determined by how an organism 'feels' with regards to that event. That is, our beliefs/emotions/desires fuel any specific response to the environment, so that the environment plays only a bit-part in the process. Certainly, the environment cannot itself impose specific beliefs/emotions/desires upon us. Therefore, our responses to that environment cannot be attributed to that environment. So, since the environment is not responsible for our responses to it, then we cannot simply attribute our brain states as mirrors of it.
Since you are not paying me to give you therapy on this issue, my response to you when you fail to see where your nose leaves off and mine begins is to do a little spoon bending. Or nose bending, as the case may be.
SoS wrote:Why do people like you and LI claim to be mystics and then piss on this concept of the illusion of the self? Why do you need to make your own little subjective world something Godly and Great in the universe and refuse to acknowledge it's effervescence?
The mystical concept of the illusion of self is mashed around somewhat by fragile ego boundaries. Making the decision to let go of the self should be a matter of choice, and not a matter of compulsion.
